One of the most popular stories circulating on the Japanese internet this weekend came from a tweet that went viral when some teenagers decided to take advantage of a McDonald’s promotion, in which any size order of fries cost only 150 yen (~1.90 USD). The teenagers decided to order sixty large servings of fries, proceeding to eat them over a period of three hours. Below is a screenshot of the tweet, which had already been re-tweeted over ten thousand times but is now deleted:

What the hell were the staff complaining about afterward…
The ones most at fault are you guys, who didn’t warn them at the time. They were a bother to other customers? Of course they were, because you lot didn’t deal with them immediately. The bastard staff who still let them sit there for three hours are just too inept for words.

ターキッシュアンゴラ(宮城県)：

Whatever. The bastards who bought them to show off are stupid, they knew it would end up like this didn’t they? Refuse to sell the fries!

ジャングルキャット(チベット自治区)：

People do this kind of thing so McDonald’s will stop doing the special. If they’re school kids, I want them to be expelled.

アムールヤマネコ(福岡県)：

They’re just losers who want to be talked about.

コーニッシュレック(九州地方)：

They could have done it in the middle of the night [instead of causing trouble during the day].

Why are the staff acting like retards??? If you dislike it that much then refuse to serve them!

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Well, we can hardly laugh at the Chinese, there are loads of these idiotic brats in Japan.

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Well, no matter how you look at them they’re middle-school students, so I guess it’s just youthful exuberance. Well, once they become high-schoolers, they’ll become adults and realise how stupid they’ve been, and they’ll start wishing they were dead.

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I blame TV. They really should stop all those TV programmes [that show people eating as much as they can].

Posted by 柊 :

If they use Twitter and Facebook, have they learned that this kind of stuff is cool? No matter who reads Twitter, or the re-tweets, these kids are only going to looks stupid…They make their own personal information public themselves, don’t say anything when you get caught up in some crime w

Posted by マータロー（スペイン） :

The things they’re doing really are on the same level as the Chinese and Korean natives…

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So stupid. It’s just a cheap need for approval.

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There’s this pattern where they seem to be under the impression that if they pay they can do whatever they want. If they’re disturbing the other customers it’s usually alright for the staff to ask them to leave, isn’t it?

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Someone I know works at this McDonald’s. My condolences.

Posted by 名無し :

In the McDonald’s near where I live, at one point they were doing stuff like ‘all you can drink’, but trash came in and kept getting refills and just sat there all day, so they soon stopped the promotion. Then it was 50 yen for a refill, but idiots who were getting cups out of the trash appeared, so that stopped too.

“Well, we can hardly laugh at the Chinese, there are loads of these idiotic brats in Japan.”

Somehow, I think the “havoc” in China is of a slightly higher caliber…

Ryoma

Bored high school kids doing a harmless prank. But because there are so many copycats, I hope it doesn’t become a fad.

lonetrey / Dan

Ahahahaha, holy crap. That’s a lot of fries…. I’m rather impressed that he ate them all.

Maybe I just have a small stomach.

Max K

1 large fry at McD’s is easily 4oz, likely more. 60x4oz=120oz for each of the two…that’s like 7-8lbs of food minimum…Not many people can eat that much without a few trips to the local vomitorium in-between…

RocKStaR

Your doing it wrong!
A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre or a stadium, through which big crowds can exit rapidly at the end of a performance. They can also be pathways for actors to enter and leave stage.[1] The Latin word vomitorium, plural vomitoria, derives from the verb vomō, vomere, “to spew forth.” In ancient Roman architecture, vomitoria were designed to provide rapid egress for large crowds at amphitheatres and stadiums, as they do in modern sports stadiums and large theatres.

lonetrey / Dan

Ah, adding onto what Rockstar said, it seems to be a myth! I personally thought it was true as well before researching it 5 minutes before this post!

Don’t forget the yen is stronger than the dollar. When I was in Japan in 2008, the dollar was a bit stronger so that would’ve been less than $1.50

the ace of books

ITT: people overreacting @ teenagers having fun. “The internet made them do it” and “TV made them do it” already mentioned, but in b4 “their parents didn’t raise them right”.

anon

In the original twitter message it asks “Please retweet this message”,
so yeah they’re doing it for attention

the ace of books

“doing it for attention”

AKA half of teenagers’ motivation since the dawn of time

ThinkBlue

Looks like something I’d want to do once before I die.

Adrianojapan

Once in Korea, I got amazed how ppl eat french fries there. It seems they pour just ANYTHING onto the table.

dk2020

LOL this story is about Japan .. but somehow Koreans are worse huh? aiiish .. waakano bakaro?

besudesu

I think it says something about teenagers in Japan that they think eating as many fries as they can is rock ‘n’ roll…they’ll learn. There are better things to spend 9,000 yen on ($113).

Paul M

I wish rebellious teenagers in my native country would limit themselves to antics like this.

Alex L

It’s really not any different from American teens in the 1950’s seeing how many people they can cram into a phone booth or car, or people flagpole sitting. And those things were before the internet. Sure it’s for attention but for fun too. It’s not like anyone is getting hurt. Kids should be kids everywhere.

Hyusa

Why would someone get worked up about this?

chucky3176

Even something stupid as this, Koreans are brought up. It seems you can’t have any negative news in Japan without someone bringing up Korean.

lol.

3arlyBoy

Too many fries!!!! Though they should’ve asked for BBQ and sweet and sour sauce alongside the ketchup. Might as well spice up the sauce variety if you’re going to down that many fries.